Wednesday, February 25, 2015

A Drexel University study finds that a large slice of donations to organizations that deny global warming are funneled through third-party pass-through organizations that conceal the original funder. But on twitter, even he finds these investigations unfair and inappropriate:

@ClimateOfGavin "Investigation" by Rep. Grijalva totally inappropriate - targeted investigation based on content of these individuals work
— Robert Brulle (@RBrulle) February 25, 2015

It seems that Rep Grijalva forgot to mention he is on a fishing trip to 7 Universities, intimidating respected scientists with many hundreds of peer reviewed papers between them, congressional requests sent to the institutions they work for.
BTW, Pure as the driven snow @RepRaulGrijalva didn't disclose to any of the scientists he's McCarthying the $78,854 he's taken from environmental lobbying groups.

This appears coordinated with attack letters from OFA, BarackObama.com.

As a life-long lover of science and freedom of speech, I felt compelled to respond to Grijalva:

Indicative of the reason for the step up in demonizing Climate Scientists who do not foresee calamity, the US Government new guidelines to all federal agencies does not mention temperature.
The only thing to be mentioned specifically is CO2.
From Paul Matthews:

Climate Wire gets into the discussion here:
Judith Curry has a post on her blog regarding this witch hunt by Grijalva.
He knows and has known her funding, esp as she was a Democrat witness in the past.
I strongly recommend reading her post.
Link to Milloy website, info on Grijalva witch hunt on Dr. Lindzen

Sunday, February 15, 2015

We hear it everyday from the media about how the Earth is changing in some region in one fashion or another. That fashion is near always in some sort negative context that deviates from "the way it should be".

These media reports are based on studies that get processed into something of sensation so that an article of "dog bites man" is reversed to "man bites dog".

The first image one is greeted with is of Lake Oroville, one of the many California's water reservoirs, in a state of low capacity. Certainly an image of California's current drought status.

The second paragraph goes on with the usual mantra:

"The driving force behind the devastating droughts? Human-induced global warming, the team reported."

But then, after many paragraphs of Ken Caldeira (not related to the study) talking about his drinking problem and when he generates drought models, climate scientist Benjamin I. Cook of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies says:

“I do, however, want to be clear that our results do not say anything about the current and ongoing drought in California,”

Examples: Ohm's Law valid only for linear electrical systems.
Gravity: invalid under relativity, on micro scale approach to infinite value of G not seen as R approaches 0.
Bernoulli's principle in aeronautics, breaks down at super and trans sonic speeds.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Covering about 71% of the planet's surface, the world's oceans play a fundamental role in shaping climate zones we see on land. This is a good reason to measure various parameters of the different oceans and determine where these parameters were in the past and where they will be in the future.

Of the numerous risible calamities to be associated with the climate change science, "Ocean Acidification" must be one of the poorest studied and wildly narrated of climate change science topics.

As you can see, the IPCC WGI AR5 has rolled out the High Certainty Welcome Wagon concerning this topic. With such a high degree of certainty, one would think that there would be a large amount of observational data to accompany such a judgement. Think again.

In summary, together, these pH time series create a compelling argument for the collection of more continuous data of this kind. Specifically, these data represent a critical step in understanding the consequences of ocean change: the linkage of present-day pH exposures to organismal tolerance and how this translates into ecological change in marine ecosystems [27],[81]. Long-term datasets exist, but many are in open-ocean locations (HOTS, BATS, ESTOC) and do not capture environmental variation in the coastal marine habitats that are of such critical ecological and economic value [20]. Additionally, they often do not capture changes in pH at physiologically relevant timescales since they are limited by ship-board sampling frequencies.